How not to spend a weekend....

[politicat]

1. Do not wake up Saturday morning with a bug up your butt to change out the sink in the bathroom when the spousal unit is really, really desperate to have you replace the whole bathtub faucet and spigot mechanism because she can't turn it on or off anymore without a pipe wrench.

2. Do not go to the hardware store or the builder's supply shop without said spousal unit.

3. Believe the said spousal unit when she says the bathtub where she showers is a priority.

4. Really listen to said spousal unit when she reminds you that you're the one who is concerned about bathing in 2nd bathroom because the tub in there is a fiberglass tub, and you don't trust any tub not made of cast iron not to crack. Realize that said spousal unit knows that you do not want to have to replace another tub, especially a tub of the depth and complexity of 2nd bathroom's tub.

5. Remember that caulk takes 24 hours to fully cure.

6. Recall that the three-fingered jackleg carpenter's apprentice that built this house was in blissful ignorance of the existence of a plumb bob, a T square, a level, or a measuring device. Recall that buying what is supposed to be correct is likely to lead to return trips to builder's supply shop.

7. Note that said apprentice made excellent use of the advances in adhesive technology and used glue, putty and liquid nails in construction in place of more removable fasteners such as nails, screws and the Sword in the Stone. Take heed that solvents will probably be necessary, and extra piping will be required.

8. Prepare for inclement weather, unexpected cold snaps and heat waves, and the inexplicable (and very recent) conversion of the builder's supply shop's owner to extreme Conservative Christianity, leading to a lack of Sunday Opening hours. Prepare then to make long trips afield to big box stores with poor cleanliness and worse customer service to procure emergency water stopping supplies.

9. Do not complain to above mentioned spousal unit about the blissful ignorance of said three-fingered apprentice re: aforementioned bob, square, level and tape. If you cannot refrain from venting frustration, do not expect sympathy. Steel yourself for the blank stare of withering pity....

and 10: If, after all of this, you must replace the sink in the bathroom, ensure you leave enough time to also replace the bathtub hardware that was the start of this mess in the first place.

And no, the sink is not in place, the bathtub is not yet functional, and it appears that he has designs on the other bathroom, too.

Anyone want a live-in servant? I cook, clean, do dishes and windows, and can provide therapy.... Just until this bug wears off....

Pcat

[Stinky The Clown]

1. We gotta spare bedroom

And a baffroom in need of updating.

[NMDemDist2]

2. Good Grief! you obviously haven't been married long. any husband

worth his salt knows when the wife is turning water taps with a pair of vice grips and you attempt ANY other plumbing project you are fated for a fear filled fandango of frustration and flush flop.

the household Goddess' insist........I'm surprised your punishment only consisted of the withering "Stare of Pity" :scared:

Hope things are all better by now...

[politicat]

3. 4 years in December .....

Have semi-co-habitated for 5.5 years as of sometime this month and really lived together for 5 years as of November.

It wasn't supposed to be a big project.... REALLY. But this house is nothing but big projects.

We're doing better with the bath, but it's still a semi-disaster zone. We ended up pulling the vanity cabinet and replacing it, so we still have to frame and seal around the new one (could not for the life of us find the same size as the old). We also have to lay new flooring as the old flooring also went up to the edge of the old vanity. So we're putting in laminate and gluing it to seal out water.

We painted, and I still need to whitewash over the slate grey paint we chose (it looks stellar with all the white of the vanity cabinet, the flusher and the tub; the white wash is just to soften.) It will get done. It will get done. It will get done.

Of course, this all happens when a) I get a job offer I can't refuse and so am back to full time, full hours and b) I've got surgery scheduled at the end of the month and c) we're trying to pack things up so we can move the house in September.

In other news, we figured out how to remodel the OTHER bathroom and increase the storage. (YIPPEE!!!!!!!) And all for under $1K plus our labor.

I'm not going to get to the kitchen countertops until winter, though.... *sigh*

[NMDemDist2]

5. excellent budgeting there PC

bless your heart. sounds like it will be great when all the little finishing touches are done, I want pictures!

:yourock:

[China_cat]

4. I understand completely.

Took my husband 15 years to finally put in the tub surround (8 years after the tile on the wall fell off and he patched it with plastic garbage bags), hooking up a hot water outlet in my shop had us showering at the neighbors for 3 weeks...and eating microwave stuff off paper plates for the same length of time...the disposal unit will be ready for sale on ebay as an antique in it's original box very soon.

Home improvements, whenever mentioned around here, make me shudder.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. That three-fingered jackleg carpenter's apprentice

really built a lot of houses, and in so many locations across the country, too!

Hope this Saturday is better at your house.

:hippie: